The Centre has taken a serious note of a confessional statement of an al-Badar terrorist that he hid in the residence of a former chairman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference after being hit by a bullet.
Mohammed Asgar alias Showkat Khan, a resident of Multan in Pakistan, revealed that he had received the bullet injury during an encounter at Bandipore, official sources said.
They said Khan, after receiving first aid, was shifted to a hospital in Srinagar under a different name.
Later, Syed Ahmed Talah, divisional commander of the al-Badr, took him to the residence of the Hurriyat leader, where he received further medical attention.
The terrorist revealed that during his stay he also came to know that Hafeez Ahsan Ali, the then chief commander of the al-Badar, was also staying there, the sources said.
Khan was later shifted to the Anchar lake area of Srinagar, they said.
After Khan expressed his desire to go back to Pakistan, he was taken to Jammu with the help of a local contact from where he shifted to Kolkata, the sources said. He was to crossover to Bangladesh before going to Pakistan, they added.
However, his luck ran out and he was held in the metropolis.
Khan revealed that he worked in a bakery in Multan and the Inter-Services Intelligence had lured him with "handsome money", the sources said.
He received training at Mansehra office of the al-Badar.